Claude-Antoine-Gabriel, duc de CHOISEUL-STAINVILLE (1760-183 - Lot 232

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Claude-Antoine-Gabriel, duc de CHOISEUL-STAINVILLE (1760-183 - Lot 232
Claude-Antoine-Gabriel, duc de CHOISEUL-STAINVILLE (1760-1838) colonel, he served in the emigration; peer de France, he was aide-de-camp to Louis-Philippe. P.A.S.; 1 page in-4, headed Aide de Camp du Roi, Palais du Louvre. Curious report on a conspiracy. He learns from the captain commanding the Louvre post "that a conspiracy is to break out today, Easter Day, at 3 o'clock. When the clock strikes the Chateau, 1,200 men who have entered the Jardin des Tuilleries without apparent weapons, 4 by 4, are to stab the Chateau's factionnaires and seize the Royal family"... He asks to take the King's orders. It is eleven o'clock...
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